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Credit to Author: Cristina Chi| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:47:00 +0800

These are the top-performing law schools in the 2024 Bar exams.

Credit to Author: Dominique Nicole Flores| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:13:00 +0800

Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island spewed ash 13 times on Thursday, December 12, according to Phivolcs. 

Credit to Author: Rhodina Villanueva| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0800

The list has been finalized: 66 senatorial aspirants will compete for the 12 seats available in the May 2025 midterm polls, the Commission on Elections announced.

The quad committee of the House of Representatives yesterday cited former Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency director general Wilkins Villanueva in contempt for lying under oath.

Credit to Author: Cecille Suerte Felipe| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0800

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III is preparing to challenge before the Supreme Court the constitutionality of the bicameral conference committee’s move to increase to P531.6 billion the unprogrammed funds in the 2025 national budget.

Credit to Author: Jose Rodel Clapano| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0800

President Marcos is slated to sign into law the P6.532-trillion national budget for 2025 before Christmas.

Credit to Author: Jean Mangaluz| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:39:00 +0800

Senate President Francis Escudero thumbed down notions that Congress was playing suck-up to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

“The fact that two petitions were filed against me shows that there are political underpinnings that is geared towards my removal from the electoral race.”

Credit to Author: Emmanuel Tupas| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0800

President Marcos will preside over a security command conference at Camp Crame today, which the Philippine National Police maintained is not a loyalty check amid the stormy political climate in the country.

Credit to Author: Jose Rodel Clapano| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0800

The Office of the President scaled back on expenses during President Marcos’ first full year in office in 2023, having spent 43.4 percent less than its spending in 2022, according to the Commission on Audit.